IT Consultants In for Cloudy Computing Forecasts?
Cloud computing generated quite the buzz and many billable hours for IT Consultants in 2007 and 2008, but recent economic pressures and Fortune 1000 IT spending trends suggest that 2009 will not be as white and fluffy. Hold onto your jobs because Goldman, Sachs & Co.’s recent survey of CIOs presents the idea that “cloud computing may get buzz, but it won’t get spend.”
What are hip, young, new tech-driven consultants and vendors to do? It’s time to get back to basics. IT leadership teams, like most executive suites these days, are looking to cut costs, so IT Consultants need to get their heads out of cloud computing and into operational efficiency. If you want to stay on the books as an IT Consultant through such lean times, it is advised that you hone in on your company’s new priorities. IT consolidation, application integration, and redundancy elimination are likely at the top of the shrinking IT spend list, which means cloud computing is quickly being pushed toward the bottom. Goldman, Sachs & Co. reports that “less than 2 percent of the respondents [CIOs] said cloud computing was a priority.”
Once again, bells and whistles are pretty, but versatility is key and basics rule.
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Interesting Statistics
Thanks Lily,
it's very interesting to see the difference between the expectations of the tech industry and the people who will have to invest in technology. Of course, it may turn out that cloud computing will still be the thing of the 2009 and most of those CIOs surveyed will be the ones losing their jobs, or the ones quickly changing their attitude... Yet, the fact that “less than 2 percent of the respondents [CIOs] said cloud computing was a priority.” is alarming and important.
Cloud computing is, indeed, all about "consolidation and redundancy elimination", optimization of spending and resources - all the things CIOs think they should rather concentrate on than Cloud Computing. Which means: the industry has not, yet, done a good job of explaining to the company executives what they are trying to sell them.
That's quite a new approach
That's quite a new approach in it consulting. As long as it's oriented on operational efficiency then I think we should only expect good changes. It seems that cloud computing will soon be part of history. Samm at Trianz
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